jointure

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And why so? because they belong to the widows of those who died in the times of plenty, and who left them large jointures upon their estates.

From Olla Podrida by Marryat, Frederick

There is scarcely any power to sell land, for it is everywhere hedged round with entails, jointures, and marriage settlements, that fetter and enslave its owner.

From The slave trade, domestic and foreign Why It Exists, and How It May Be Extinguished by Carey, H. C. (Henry Charles)

He talked a long time of jointures, three per cents, India stock; and I—O youth!

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 by Various

Courtship, love, presents, jointures, settlements have no place in their thoughts, or terms whereby to express them in their language. 

From Gulliver's Travels by Swift, Jonathan

Secondly, because my brothers were married, with large families, and I could not stomach the prospect of charging our estate with jointures, and of procreating a brood of little Gozzis, all paupers.

From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second by Gozzi, Count Carlo